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Volume 3 No6 Third Year SALT LAKE CITY AND DENVER NOVEMBER 9 1901 Colorado Catholic Eighteenth Year
BOTHA THE fRO OF filE DAY
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The Alan Whom the British Reported Dead Comes to Life
and Defeats Them in a Pitched Battle
Kiplings Latest The Question
From the London Times
Once more our arms in Africa have got
another check
Bensons command is what you might call
a total wreck
Look at the maddening figures Benson
Rilled outright
And eight other gallant officers also
killed In the fight
Fiftyeight noncommissioned officers and
men
Who fell upon the veldt and will never
get up again
Tile tYoa my lords and gentlemen
that I here ask of you
Is What are we going to do eh What
are we going to do
Ve thought we had Botha pocketed with
a paltry three hundred men
And the first we knew he was up and at
us again
We sneered at them called them guer
rillas and didnt think that they
Would cast a shadow of any size on our
coronation day
But now weve found out as weve found
before that theres something wrong
That instead of being guerrillas theyre
an army still and strong
And the question that must be answered
the question thats up to you
Is What are we going to do eh What
are we going to do
Bothas Desperate Charge
London Npv 2The Rustenburg
column under Colonel G Benson has
met with a serious reverse in the south
ern part of the Transvaal In the area
of Commandant General Bothas oper
ations
Colonel Benson and eight other offic
ers were killed and thirteen ofllcers
wounded besides fiftyeight noncom
missioned officers and men killed and
156 wounded
The war office has issued two dis
patches from General Kitchener dated
Pretoria Nov 1 the first of which
j
states that
A severe attack was made on the
rear guard of Bensons column about
twenty miles northeast of Bethel neal
Brakenlaagte during a thick mist The
strength of the enemy is reported to
have been 1000 They rushed two guns
with the rearguard but it is uncertain
whether they were able to remove
them I fear our casualties were heavy
Benson waS wounded
The Boers made desperate efforts to
xiamiVin1m HitS vvhnlo Tlrltish force
lif Pt 1b
British lines and being driven back
each time with heavy loss The defense
was stubbornly and successfully main
tained through the whole of the fol
lowing day and the next night until
Colonel Barter who had marched all
night from Bushmans kopje brought
relief on the morning of Nov 1 The
Boers then retired
Their losses are estimated at be
tween 300 and 400
Colonel Benson did not long survive
Not only did General Botha direct the
attack as already cabled but he per
sonally shared in the fightimr
Edgar Wallace correspondent of the
Daily Mail writing from Pretoria Oct
12 again protests against official
optimism and declares that the war
will not be ended for another year He
urges the immediate despatch of large
reinforcements of both men and
horses
60Ewn when all that is possible has
been done in this direction he says
60lt will be necessary to wait grimly
and not to expect any quick result
RIOTOUS SCENES
q A riotous scene occurred yesterday in
Peckham a suburb of London A
mall gathering of the local branch of
the D > mocratic league undertook to
hold a meeting to protest against the
war in South Africa The manifesta
tions started in procession for the place
of meeting but were hooted buffeted
and dispersed
A crowd estimated at 20000 gath
ered to oppose them There were many
uily rushes and the nolice were harely
able to protect the struggling pro
I oers from the fury of the populace
After much fighting during which a
man was stabbed the proBoers were I
jemoved under police protection The I
victorious crowd then held a jingo
meeting and sang RuleBritannia
Dispatches from Karsaw say the
newspapers there assert that a con
tract has been entered into for the
supply of 20000 horses for the British
cavalry in South Africa
BOTHA AMAZES EXPERTS
London Nov Reflecting men who
follow the course of military operations
in South Africa are bewildered by
Bothas latest exploit They had been
convinced by Kitcheners dispatches
that he had narrowly escaped capture
and was somewhere east of Ermenlo
with only 300 burghers and that a se
ries of British columns had come into
line and were in communication with
one another for the purpose of sur
rounding and running him to earth
Suddenly they are confronted with
the casualty list of over 200 killed and
wounded Including many officers and
with practical evidence that Botha
with 1000 men succeeded in surprising
the rear guard of the British force
rushing the guns and making so deter
mined an attack that a relieving col
umn was necessary The fighting was
real and desperate on both sides and
the Boers after inflicting heavy losses
retired either with or without the cap
tured guns The details of this en
gagement tend to discredit the conclu I
sion of the military journal that Botha
had ceased to be much account for the
present
GIVES IMPEDIMENT TO TROOPS
This deplorable episode of the war
in Eastern Transvaal directs attention
to the question of guns as an impedi
ment for mobile columns The Boers
are apparently fighting without artil
lery whereas every one of the sixty
seven British columns is supplied with
guns and these invariably keep l them
back and restrict their operations The
military critics are beginning to blurt
out the truth that guns are useles
ptII when the Boers spring out of the dark
yi ness or mist or veldt smoke and that
it is not worth while to trek about
the country with them
Some sportsmen are asking whether
guns are not as useless in operations
against bands of guerrillas as motor
cars would be for a fox hunt across
country
This last battle was the severest en
gagement of the present year and re
sembled Vlakfontein where the rear
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guard was attacked under the cover of
a grass fire
ENGLISH FEELING INTENSIFIED
London Nov 2The uneasy dissat
isfied feeling of the English people
in regard to the progress of the war
in South Africa has been intensified by
the news of the reverse sustained by
Colonel Benson which is among the
most serious that British arms have
suffered in the last year
It is argued that such an engagement
at close quarters which resulted in
heavy British Isses necessarily implies
equal losses to the Boer who can less
afford them and therefore the net re
sult is gain for the British
But people find little comfort in such
reasoning The telegraphic news
which is strictly censored is scanty
but during the week it was such as to
cause several optimistic editorials to
appear today side by side with Lord
Kitcheners dispatch announcing the
reverse for the insertion of which the
presses of the newspapers had to be
stopped
But mail letters which appear today
and hive been appearing during the
week show that there is little reason
for optimism For example a long let
ter in the Times today accuses the bulk
of the British officers of slackness
slackness slackness Wherever you
go at stations the military fill the ho
tels and take up the waiting rooms
while the ordinary civilian travelers
live on the platform At one place the
hotels are full of military Champagne
Stilton cheese and other luxuries make
you feel that you were in Capria and
not with an army in the field
BOERS USE BRITISH MUNITIONS
The same correspondent declares that
nearly all the Boers are armed with
British rifles and use British ammuni
tion and British horses The British
soldiers receive 300 rounds of cartrdges
and shed them like leaves when they
are tired The Kaffirs pick them up in I
bushels and supply the Boers In a
word the correspondent pretty directly
charges many officers with laziness
not untainted with cowardice
The correspondents generally agree
that the bulk of the men have grown
stale and weary by the futile trekking
after an elusive enemy
J4 Jf hej > gr etaothat > such pursuit
will long continue to be ineffective if I
the present system of huge wagon
trains is adhered to The Boers take
with them only led horses of which I
they carry the bare necessities of life
They keep to the hills while the I
Briti h columns with innumerable
wagons keep to the beaten road An
Hher suggestion is that the artillery
uns should be sent home It is urged
they are seldom used and more seldom
effective while they embarrass the
movements ot the column even more
than the transport wagons
MAX ORELLS IRONY
Max ORell writing from London to
the Hearst newspaper syndicate says
in part
The Boer Commandant Scheeper Is
recovering Of course you heard of his
capture by the English The English
papers announced the event Scheeper
Captured in letters about half a foot
long on their posters and contents bills
However the English people in spite
of what many Americans will say to
the contrary have a fairly keen sense
of humor The brilliant capture has
never been referred to again as it has
been ascertained that that leader was
caught in bed in a farm house where
he had been lying very ill for several
days The Tenth Hussars the kings
on regiment must be heartily con
gratulated on their pluck and enter
prise If Louis Botha and Christian
Dewet will now sprain their ankles so
as to be unable to run the Tenth Hus
sars will no doubt feel much distin
guished
Congratulations from all quarters of
the world are pouring in at the house
in Amsterdam where the wife of the
amou Boer general Louis Botha has
given birth to a son a fact which
hows that the Boer general was not
so wholly occupied with the English
that he could not attend to his home
duties Some admirers have advised
Mrs Botha to take care that her son
as soon as he can lisp shall be made
like the son of the Carthagenian gen
era 1 alo a pitr otic African to swear
everlasting enmity against the power
cue oiiaoieuu invaaers of his father
land
The Buller controversy the popular
indignation over the governments
complacent assurances that everything
is all rght in South Africa and the
certainty in the public mind that Lord
Kitcheners official dispatches are care
fully edited in Downing street before
oeing published are plunging the peo
pe of England into deeper and deeper
resentment
The whole career of Napoleon in
cluding Waterloo cost England E831
000000 Already the Boer war has cost
her 120000000 while losses in men
ead injured and prisonersamount to
he amazing total of 76000
To the foregoing display of lost lives
and wasted money government apol
ogists reply that the American civil
war cost the lives of 600000 men
Retort has been instantaneous that
these lives were not sacrificed vainly
that they cemented a union which less
than twoscore years later dominates
the indutrial world
ALL NATIONS IN THE BAND
Pretoria Nov 2Among the prison
ers taken at Mullers laager were a
number of train wreckers one of whom
was captured with a Martini exploding
mechanism and dynamite in his pos
session The leader of this party was
Jack Hinton The prisoners taken
slate that Hinton regularly employed
them in the work of attacking train
cenvoys
Hinton escaped but Ryan his chief
assistant was caught According to
the military authorities his gang num
bers aboutfifty Some of these are
what are called renegade English Irish
and Scotch The remainder are Amer
icans foreigners and Boers
The day before he was captured Ma
jor Welmarans came into the British
lines under a flag of truce to obtain
lint for his wounded
Commandant General Louis Botha is
rerorted to have commanded in person I
the attack upon Colonel Bensons col
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THE BOER FIGHTER
Saddle and bridle and girth
Stirrup and crupper and bit
Man on the top of a little horse
Shaggy and strong and fit
Rugged and bearded face
Ragged old hat of felt
JUflethat kjlls at j a thousand arris >
And a tlghtcrdmmed cartridge belt
CHORUS 1
Oh it isnt by turning out your toes
You can beat the foe in a fight
Or learning to march like a marionette
Or by keeping your buttons bright
And it isnt the way that you crook your
arm
When you shut your eye to shoot
But its taking to cover at every chance
Hillock and rock and root J
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umn Bothas force has effected a
combination with another commando
which has been hovering around Bethel
lately
BOERS DISCUSS REPRISALS
Amsterdam Nov IThe Boer depu
tation here summoned Messrs Leyds
and Van Boeschoten by telegraph yes
terday from Brussels to consider dis
patches received from the Boer lead
ers in the field saying that the fight
ing burghers were determined to make
reprisals if the British continued hang
ing and shooting rebels and others to
I the effect that the Boer authorities in
south Africa affirm that the adoption
of reprisals would be bad policy and
that in order to strengthen their posi
tion they request Mr Kruger to let
them know his opinion as he still has
the greatest hold on the minds of the
burghers
The meeting lasted four hours and
it was decided to advise Mr Kruger to
comply with the request of the Boe
authorities and to take the opportunity
to bring the subject of British execu
tions in south Africa before the Euro
pean public in an open letter
Dr Leyds has gone to Hilversum to
I present the matter to Mr Kruger
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PALACE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR
Dr Koldevey German Explorer Be
lieves He Has Found Courtyard
Dr Koldevey has issued a very in
teresting report about the progress of
the excavations he and his Gerpian
colleagues are carrying on at the sup
posed site of Nebuchadnezzars palace
in ancient Babylon He says he has
I discovered in the south quarter of the
town a square courtyard surrounded
jby walls the southern side of which
I is a very fine piece of architecture
j The wall is faced with glazed tiles
1 which seem to have wonderfully with
stood the ravages of time and are ar
tistically ornamented with flowers and
tracery but many of the tiles have
fallen out of their places to the ground
and they had to be carefully pieced
together This has been successfully
done and the result shows a beautifu
design The design is now on the way
to Germany
In the courtyard were also found sev
eral bricks evidently part of a Mosaic
pavement the desigj of which war
composed of enamels and glassraised
work as well as coffins coins frag
I ments of stone inscriptions and a
broad slab on which was a picture of
the Babylonian idea of hell
Dr Kqldevey considers the recent
finds as fully proving that this part of
the city contained what was doubtless
the finest of the Babylonian palaces
and consequently the palace of Nebu
chadnezzar Meanwhile excavation
I are being carried on in the business
1 quarter of old Babylon where in 1874
the entire business documents of the
Babylonish firm Egibi Son possi
bly the oldest house of business of
which the world holds record to use
Tennysons phrasewere dug out by
Arabians These documentsunpaid
bills day books ledgers etcwere
made of hardened clay and the won
der is that they had not crumbled away
during the course of the centuries In
I any case itis clear that the unpaid
bills are now only of historic interest
focthe Babylonion legal period of lim
I itation must have long expired
If nobody took calumny in and gave I
itself it lodging it would starve and die of
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He doesnt know how to dress
And he doesnt know how to drill
But he met the smartest troops In the
world
And fought till they had their fill
Hes a slovenly awkward chap
Hes a lubberly farmgr man
But he lay on the velit from dawn till
dawn yi I
And sho tinjUieyjyjrJgck and ran I
CHORUS
For it isnt the way that you keep the I
touch
Or the way that you wheel about
And it isnt by pulling your waist belt in
And by padding your tunic out
And it isnt by cocking your forage cap
Or by gluing a glass in your eye t
But its knowing the way to shoot like
hell
And its learning the way to die
They have gathered his kith and kin
In a prison beyond the sea
But they cant imprison h daring soul
That lived in a bosom free
They have scattered the calcin walls
Which sheltered his child and wife
But they cant extinguish the flame
theyve lit
Till it dies with his dying life
I CHORUS
For its never heat of a burning home
That has softei d a oem ans heart
And its never the reek of a lyddite shell
That has riven his ranks apart
And it isnt money it isnt men
When the guns loud song begins
But its feeling your foot on your native
land
And its being rightthat wins
Bertrand Shadwell in the Cape Town
African News
Hall Caine ona Catholic Platform
So much has been said lately about
Hall Caines book The Eternal City
that it comes somewhat as a surprise
to hear of his appearance on a Cath
olic platform In fact the writer him
helf thought the event required a jus
tification He was deputed to open a
I church bazaar held in October at Doug
las in the Isle of Man in aid of St
Marys church and schools and was
introduced to the patrons of the fete
by the Very Reverend Dean Walsh
rector of the parish
The following passages in his open
ing address are taken from a lengthy
report printed in the Catholic Times
of England dated Oct 11
At the moment said Mr Hall
Caine I seem to be a target for Cath
olics and nonCatholics alike A book
which I have lately published has been
denounced by Protestants as being
Catholic and by Catholics as being
Protestant If I had written it to
please either Catholics or Protestants
I should find myself in the position of
the old man and his ass Nearly every
post brings me letters from Catholic
friends lamenting the liberties which
I am supposed to have taken with his
Holiness the Pope in making him aban
don the temporal powers and above
I all in attributing to him an earlier ca
reer as a soldier as a married man
and as the father of a son I am glad
to take this opportunity of telling
Catholics what I hoped would be un
necessary that nothing of the kind is
done or intended Thq Pope in my
book is at every point an imaginary
person owing something no doubt to
Pius IX and something to Leo XIII
but essentially the creation of an au
thors brain treated I trust reverent
ly out of regard for his position as the
head of the greatest religious organiza
tion in the world
THE DEMOCRACY OF CHRIST
If it has not been hurtful to Pro
testartes to speak of tha Catholicism of
Christ I trust it will not be hurtful to
Catholics to speak of the demorcacy
of Christ The one salient fact in
Chri ts life as a man is that He
walked with the poor apd had compas
sion on the multitude Of all the
churches the Catholic church is the
Church of the poor This ought to be
its great honor and prIde A Church
of Christ that casts in its lot with the
rich and great against the poor and
lowly would 1t a church built on the
I sand The Catholic church can well
afford to be true to the democratic
I teachings of its founder It can only
live by being the church of the people
His Holiness sees this clearly and
hence his Encyclicals on Christian
Democracy The Christian Democrat
ic Movement is the greatest movement
in the world at this moment it is go
ing to revolutionize the natures and
change tin relations of the races and
the Church cannot afford to letit slip
a > vay from its tutelage Still it Is not
the Pope only but the parish priest
who must labor constantly if the poor
are to be kept under the spiritual in
fluence of the Church He must love
the roor and go down among them and
walk w th them That Is what many
Catholic priests are doing Their work
is very laborious and often very thank
ess They are the true Christian dem
ocrats who neither receive honors nor
expect them Their reward is thecon
sciousness that they cheer the lives of
the lonely and comfort the deaths of
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those who fall in the cruel battle of
humanity Such workers are to be
found not in Rome London Paris or
New York merely but in every little
city or village where the cross on the
towers of your Catholic churches points
upwards as a symbol of hope and
faith Devoted priests and Sisters of
Mercy are here and everywhere giving
he sacrifice of their lives on the great
pacific battlefields of religion They are
the strength the bulwarks of your
Church and the undying flame of their
piety and devotion burning from age
to age and from end to end of Chris
tendom in the midst of damping per
secution and in spite of human errors
proves that the Catholic church in its
essence is Divine and that what Is
Divine in it will grow and bloom and
live forever
PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE POPE OF THE I
I Having referred so often to the
Pope let me conclude with a few words
about the Holy Father himself I have
been privileged to see his Holiness a
I great many times and have come close
to those who have been very close to
the Pontiff His habits his daily con
versations his casual remarks and his
deeper Interests have not been alto
gether unknown to me during the past
four years coming through the medium
of one or other member of his devoted
household During that time I have
heard many rumors among nonCath
olics of the outside influences brought
to bear upon the Pontiffof this car
dinal or that religious order ruling the
Pontiff who rules the Church My
own knowledge as an outsider such as
it is has contradicted all such rumors
I have been conscious that the Pope is
actually as well as apparently the head
of your Church and that no more pow
I erful ntellect or more resolute will no
tenderer heart for the cry of human
suffering or more catholic spirit in re
I lation to the troubles of the world has
yet been found in the long line ot il
lustrious men who have occupied the
throne of the Sovereign Pontiff J
think it is a great thing that your
great Church should be governed by
a great Christian who according to
your belief rules you his children by
the authority of the Almighty as
Moses ruled the children of Israel And 1
I I wish you to believe that whatever I
hare said elsewhere of this belief in
tIe absolutism and infallibility of the
I Pope has not been from want of a due
sense of the grandeur the magnificence
I and tIp sublimity of the conception of
a Church that Is governed by a great
I and g od man in the name and voice
of God
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The man who lives in indfference is I
one who has never seen the woman he
could loveLa Bruyerc
fburd and tb Papacy
History of the Bishops of Rome Blended with That of
The Church
Written for The Intermountain Catholic
The Bible which from the beginning
of the Christian era has been the foun
dation of all religious controversies has
been discussed in all its different at
titudes regarding religious creeds As
a rule of faith reason demands the
position maintained by the Catholic
church Its inspiration when separat
ed from the infallible authority of the
Church is uncertain whilst the canon
of Scriptpres without similar authority
cannot be defined
Next in importance to theTBible comes
the Papacy which has always been the
direct object of attack by all who have
separated from the bosom of the
Church The pope being the head of
the Catholic church naturally any pro
test against the church would be di
rected against him The name pope
is derived from the Latin papa
which means father Up to the
eleventh century all bishops were called
by that name but since the time of
Gregory VII only the bishop of Rome
has been styled pope
A French writer in designating the
nature of the Papal power in the
Church has said It is a bishop who
in quality is nothing more than other
bishops since bishops pre alike The
episcopacy does not suffer Inferiority
in any of its members and the bishop
of Rome is no more a bishop than the
bishop of an obscure city But because
the bishop of Rome is the vicar of
Jesus Christ he exercises a power
which is not contained In the essential
power of the episcopacy Indeed It is
the essence of a vicar that he forms
only one sole hierarchical person with
the one whom he represents without
forming a distinct degree below him
This is so true in the propriety of the
term vicar that even in an inferior
degree we every day see the bishop
of a particular church or diocese giv i
ing to himself a vicar who represents I
him with the plenitude of his ordinary
authority Such Is the singular
dignity of the vicar of Jesus Christ
He Is In possession of the whole au
thority of JesUs Christ over the Church
and over the episcopacy
In the long line of succession from
Peter to Leo XIII embracing twenty
centuries and numbering 254 popes
their history is that of the church In
the claim of succession which binds
Leo to Peter there is not a missing
link and it can be traced back with
the same historical certainty as the
succession of presidents from George
Washington down to Theodore Roose
velt
Hostility to the papacy is coeval with
its existence Why For the same
reason that the fallen angels rebelled
against God or anarchists rebel against
the ruling power On Peter Christ
built his Church he himself being the
chief corner stone It is only natural
then that those who hate the Church
like those who hate civil government
should aim their poisoned darts at the
herds of each
The history of the bishops of Rome
and that of Christianity ari insepar
able and at no time do we find bl hops
assembled in Councils declaring what
must be believed as of faith and morals
without the sanction and authority of
the Roman pontiff In the second cen
tury the objection raised oy the
heathens against Christianity was that
the Christians were united under one
supreme ruler whose power and au
thority equaled that of Caesar Those
who separated from the Church towards
the close of the second century sole
ly protested against the authority
rights and prerogatives exercised by
the pope Dr Wollinger the leader of
the Old Catholic party in Germany
admits in one of his works that the
Roman pontiff exercised supreme au
thority in the second century So did
Tertullian who like Dr Dollinger ar
rayed himself for a time against the
pope
The Reformers claimed that papal
authority was usurped and in conjunc
tion with the civil authority was in
troduced in the Dark Ages But being
exercised and fully recognized long be
fore the conversion of Constantine ac
cording to the testimony of Tertullian
Dollinger and also heathen testimony
it must have existed independent of the
civil authority
Prior to the conversion of Constan
tine the civil power was hostile to
Christianity Most of the successors
of St Peter received the martyrs
crown There could be no possible col
lusion between the Roman pontiffs and
the civil i authorities whose hostility
decreed the popes death and strove
hard to suppress the Church and ex
tirpate the last vestige of Christianity
from the empire Therefore it follows
necessarily that the supreme power and
spiritual authority of the pope exer
cised and recognized during the first
three centuries was independent of the
civil power
After the conversion of Constantine
when peace was restored to the
Church the seat of civil power was
transferred from Rome to the East
Constantine transferred It from Rome
to Byzantium afterwards known as
Constantinople His ambition then
was to exalt the bishop of the new
capital or the new Rome as old Rome
was no longer a permanent residence
of the imperial court He succeeded
in making Byzantium hitherto a suf
fragan see of Heraclea a patriarchal
see also of giving the patriarch of
Constantinople precedence over those
of Antioch and Alexandria ranking
after the bishop of Rome If usurpa
tion bv the civil authority ever did
exist here was a case but not In favor
of the pope whose authority was ac
knowledged and whose supremacy was
universally recognized
To be Continued
High Jinks at a Holiness Carnival II
Chicago Tribune
The temperature at the first evening
meeting of the Holiness convention was
about 100 degrees in the shady corners
of the room The Rev Mr Hodgkins
of South Carolina said it was only a
fair start and that the meeting would
be the hottest gathering Chicago has
ever known
The revival was In full swing last
evening when a hundred or more per
sons met in the Holiness tabernacle
Huron and Noble streets The meet
ings began with an outdoor service led
by Duke M Farson Mr Farson stood
on a box surrounded by base drum
mers snare drummers singers and ex
perience relators They sang one song
twelve times
Im glad Im saved shouted i
broadshouldered man in the front
row Its a wonderful thing to b
able to walk the streets of this great
wicked city and feel that Im white as
snow
Three young and two aged womer
told how they had been snatched from
the burning then everybody went Intc
the church
Evangelist Andy Dolbow who is
known as a reformed prizefighter led
the singing He kept Im glad the
grace of God is burning in my houl
going for about ten minutes Then he
said Lets have plenty of singing
Lets all go right at No 62 AVeri
in the Land of Canaan Whoop
whoop wow weeee and Evan
gelist D lbow circled round and round
I
the pulpit
I Were in the Land of Canaan set
lithe congregation at high pressure
Above the song could be heard the
shouts and amens of the faithful
What we want Is oidfashioned
preaching shouted Dolbow
Sobs punctuated the song and three
elderly women joined hands and circled
in the center of the room Men and
women on their knees began to weave
I back and forth and pound on the seats
of the chairs
I want the Lord to take this tow
and shake it up shouted a man
throwing his hands above his head
Yes yes shake it hard Lord
sobbed a woman
The excitement died out a bit and
Evangelist Seth Rees took
hold v
Every one of us needs an hour of
prayer a day he said Get up at
530 in the morning and have a great
time with the Lord Pray with all
your might and have a good time
Ive got salvation in my soul and I
may have some in my feet before the
evening is over was the way Brother
Hodgkins of South Carolina introduced
himself r was In toe church twenty
three yearsbefore I > was converted I
was sure on the devils road to hell
But well all be hotter when this
convention is over Its going to be a
scorcher beloved We arent warm
enough yet We need something to
make us jump
Mr Rees and E L Harvey took the
cue and leaped in the air cracked
their heels and shook hands at the alti
tude of three feet
Brother Hodgkins voice died away as
he asked that all those who wished
be saved would please stand He c
ered his face with his hands Mr Har
vey fell on his knees and wrapped his
arms around his body Two womei
fell flat on the floor Brothers Rees
and Dolbow began to circulate through
the congregation urging sinners toward
the front
Mr Harvey swaying back and 1
forth and beating the floor with his
fists prayed that It might be made
the hottest convention the world had
ever known
Get ready for the great white
throne he shouted and two more
women fell prostrate on the floor
pounding their fists and heels A girl
14 or 15 years old knelt at the rail Hem
arms were held motionless above her
head She said nothing her body was
rigid
What we want to do said Pastor
Farson of the Holiness tabernacle In
his sermon yesterday morning Is to
put a corkscrew right upinto the skies
and pull out blessings and victory
Another point he made was I tell
you brethren its awful the way the
devil Is getting the church people
Why hes just hitching his engine on
to whole congregations and yanking
them off to hell
The full corps of evangelists and ex
horters was present when services be
gan in the West Side church at 930
oclock Seth Rees spoke briefly and
Andy Dolbow led the singirfg Pastor
Farson spoke on Sin
Friends he said weve got to
go
at the devil hammer and tongs Sin
is a powerful thing Its all over the
world Its in places you would never
expect it to be Why its preached
from the pulpit I know a Bible school
in this city that preaches it I tell you
the devil has got this world bag and
baggage Only a few will be saved
If you are not prayerful your folks will
go to hell sure Why it is even possi
ble for a Holiness preacher to go to
hellAn
An old woman stood up beside her
chair and wayed her hands like sema
phores
OO she shouted In prolonged
exclamation and sat down
Then a girl knelt at the rail and be
gan to weep Suddenly she threw baqk
her head and shouted
r want to die I want to die right
now Lord
Amen yelled Evangelist Andy Do
bow whirling around on his knees and
making a furious pass at an imaginary
enemy Then he laughed Praise
God he said
A young squareshouldered working
man went down the aisle and knelt
Pastor Farson knelt beside him and
placed an arm ovg his shoulder
Evangelist Hodgkins started a hymn
The converts began to go down to the
front and the congregation warmed up ii
AI over the room women began ti
get on their feet and wave their hand
kerchiefs Some of them sobbed and
groaned One or two yelled One W
man with white hair and bent figure
banged her chair vigorously on the
floor
In the afternoon Seth Rees uas th
preacher at the church He said thit
when the end of the world fame tbI
I would be no more than 111000 persons
saved